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Paper Tiger
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since 2003-09-28

Posts 77

0 posted 2004-05-09 11:15 PM

The opportune clock strikes at noontime,
And twelve chimes march all in a line.

I watch the arms go round and round!
And listen to the clock's metrical sound.

My heart sinks and present are my fears
Every time its dull hands shift gears.

All I hear is . . . tick-tock—tick-tock—
I wonder why, oh why must it mock!

This torment, this ridicule, this charade!
Nothing more than a display—a parade!

And every hour on the hour it roars!
Yes! It roars to me the hour henceforth.

It never lets up, nor will it ever end!
I shall suffer its efforts again and again.

I curse the wretched clock ticking away,
And ask what it might be trying to convey.

The ever persistent clock whispers to me:
"Get up and go outside! There you'll see!"

We see much, observe little, and perceive less.

LucidityNow
Member

since 2001-02-06

Posts 118
Canada

1 posted 2004-05-10 08:24 PM

Great job here. As much as I can't understand the ending I REALLY liked the poem. Musings about time always interest me, this poem makes people think, I like it.

and i'm certain that if i drive into those trees, it would make less of a mess, than she's made of me...

dgvarner
Member Elite

since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

2 posted 2006-01-25 09:57 AM

good one!

enjoyed--
hugs, g

"We of the craft are all crazy...all are more or less touched." Lord Byron

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2006-01-25 01:34 PM

Enjoyed this...well done!

In the midst of winter,
I found there lives within me..
An invincible summer.

Kaos
Member

since 2001-08-02

Posts 317
between space and time

4 posted 2006-01-25 01:47 PM

i liked this... i got lost in a few places but the progression from line to line was neat. Good write, thanks for sharing

Life is a torment and torment an enigma. So burn the shackles of slavery and let love run free
-i wrote it somewhere in time

Katerie
Member

since 2006-01-27

Posts 92
Central New York

5 posted 2006-01-27 07:44 PM

Very different. A little odd, but not in a bad way. I have one written on a personified clock as well... I found it amusing that someone else had the same idea.

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